CVE-2019-9512 — Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to …
Published: 2019-08-13 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.0
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7